Kingdom Suffereth Violence – The Machiavelli / Erasmus / More Correspondence and Other Unpublished Documents

Bénéton is author of many books, including De l’Egalité par défaut (Paris, 1997; American Edition: Equality by Default: an Essay on Modernity as Confinement ISI Books, 2004), and Introduction à la politique moderne (Paris 1987).

• TABLE OF CONTENTSPrologue1PreliminariesSection 1. The Readers, The Readings 6Section 2. The Authors, The Strategic Context 15Section 3. The Authors, The Historical Contexts 31Section 4. The Texts, The Writing 426Book I. Morality and NecessityCh. 1. The Tender Commerce of Friendship 51Ch. 2.Ch. 3.(July 1517–March 1518) 51Institutio Tyranni 60Liber Necessitatis 85Book II. Realism and UtopiaCh. 4. Prince Atecratos’s Island 101Ch. 5. Nowhere and Elsewhere 125(April–November 1518) 101Book III. The Hidden PrinceCh. 6.Ch. 7.Ch. 8. Addenda 176(1519–1525) 149Quia Nominor Princeps (1) 149Quia Nominor Princeps (2) 168Book IV. The Registers of WritingCh. 9. The Languages of Friendship 182Ch. 10.(1535–1536) 182Apte dicere, apte tacere 201Epilogue227Appendices232Acknowledgments252Index253